This is a large canvas, 46″x54″. I keep working on it. Reemergence… Forrest doesn’t think it’s a word, but they make things up in crosswords, so I can too. My new agenda for judging a work of art is an acronym that I picked up. ICU for intensity, complexity and unity. 
New stairs to gym
The Fines Creek Gym is more than eighty years old. This summer the old broken concrete stairs were removed. Photo from inside the gym. Now they are replaced, thanks to sponsors. The first step was sponsored by Donna Livengood, Gregg’s mom, in memory of his dad, Gale.
Progress on bluejay painting
The balance between painting and representation is hard for me. Representation doesn’t take as much time and attention, because I have a camera and I’m pretty good at copying. But that isn’t what I want to do. Have you seen a bluejay in the woods? Only a camera can capture every feather, but is that why you were walking in the woods?
What a gift!
Thanks Jill. The note says to use these in my art, maybe collage. It’s almost Feb. but I felt like Christmas!
Progress on Blue Jay
I’m going to have to give up on gessoed paper. It buckles too much, and I’m putting more energy into it. I think I’ll work on unstretched canvas. I’ve done that, before, but not for a while. Anyway, this is todays painting progress.
Blue Jay Today
Donna gave me a bunch of bird magazines. The photos of the bluejays caught my eye. But we seldom see bluejays. From drawing to painting, this is not a bluejay.
New Year, thank goodness!
I’m experimenting with Yupo paper, a polypropolene water media paper. Mine are 9″x12″. I used masking tape on the corner, to plywood. I’ll have white corners when I’m finished. May
be under a mat, or a feature ( when you’re hiding a mistake, call it a feature!) This has been an incredibly wet season, and part of our yard has slid down the mountain. What a big problem. So maybe that’s why this piece looks stormy and foreboding.